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The cemetery has been tended to, and Pascal's father's stone has been repaired and is currently upright in the cemetery, with other family stones around it. I also previously had found info regarding how he died....he was apparently kicked by a horse and died some days later.

There is a woman who has greatly helped the cemetery and parish with this..I will find her name if I still have it, but she is an angel.

As far as our tribal heritage, it is likely that Genevieve Godet, was part of the many tribal members at the Huron Village next to the Huron Mission in what is now Windsor....hence the street name: Huron Church Road, near the Ambassador Bridge. What confuses things is that the Wyandotte/Huron Confederacy welcomed and provided refuge and community to members of Wyandotte/Huron, Petun(Tobacco Nation), Neutral, other Huron groups, plus Ottawa, Ojibwa, Sauk and Fox, Pottawatomi, Shawnee and maybe others, for the better part of the 1700's. That means that even though a family member was present at the Huron Village, like ours was, they may in fact have been born a member of any one of the tribes. Having said that, it is most likely that we are Wyandotte/Huron Confederacy, Petun Nation descendants. I'm still researching it. Pascal buried at Marietta, GA, signed his Civil War recruiting card showing he was born at Malden, West Canada about 1840. Since the Wyandotte(also spelled Wyandot)/Huron family members were the only ones moved out to the new Wyandotte Reserve in Anderdon Township/Malden/Amherstberg from the old Huron Village property by the British, it's even more likely that Wyandot is our ancestry. The tribal geneaologist is working on this with me still, and our Odette family members' names are all over the Reserve land maps, and the older sister of Pascal buried at St Francis Xavier was Genevieve Audet dit Lapointe and she married Chief Joseph Warrow, a chief of the Wyandot Anderdon band. There's a lot of detail, and some confusion, but he was clearly Wyandot and she was half of more First Nation, but not necessarily Wyandot.....working on it, and will let you know when I do for sure. I have to find Genevieve's mother's picture.

Moving Pascal's remains from Marietta involves almost an act of Congress. The actual cost of reinterment might be paid by the U.S. Army, if and when his actual bones still exist, if and when the cemetery agrees to let them be tested based on the QMC info, and if and when the test proved he was our blood relative for sure. There's a whole unit officially doing nothing other than testing and confirming the identity of Army KIA...same people are also doing Viet Nam and other remains, and ID'ing a Civil War "Union" veteran is way down the list of priorities for a Southern cemetery director, or so it has seemed so far.

Another thing available is the battle flag of the 14th Michigan "Veteran Volunteer" Infantry, that is on display, I believe, in the state capital building in Lansing...

Take care

Mike

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